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President Ghani calls for Afghans to remain in country
By Yalda HakimBBC News
31 March 2016
From the sectionAsia
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Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has taken a tough and somewhat unexpectedly blunt stance on the tens of thousands of his citizens who are fleeing the country to make the dangerous journey to Europe.
"I have no sympathy," the Afghan leader told me in his palace in Kabul. He is calling on his countrymen to remain in the war-ravaged nation and join in the effort to rebuild it.
But do his words carry the weight they should, in a country that is increasingly feeling frustrated with the political elite, and a sense of hopelessness about their future?
Convincing people to stay feels like an impossible task for what is perhaps one of the toughest jobs in the world, being Afghanistan's president. Ashraf Ghani was sworn in in September 2014 after controversial elections.
Image copyrightEPAImage captionAfghans are continuing to make their way to Europe
This led to the formation of a national unity government with his main rival, Abdullah Abdullah, appointed as chief executive officer. Since then, Mr Ghani has had to deal with a shrinking economy, high unemployment, a perilous security situation thanks to a resurgent Taliban and an ineffective government, further weakened by his troubled partnership with Dr Abdullah.
'Defiant'
It is no wonder, then, that Afghans make up the second largest group, after Syrians, to flee to Europe. In the past year alone, 180,000 nationals have fled instability and economic hardship at home.
But who should take responsibility for the tens of thousands of Afghans who have turned up on European shores? In a wide-ranging interview, Ashraf Ghani said that people shouldn't take the risky journey in the first place.
Image copyrightAPImage captionIn 2014, Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani signed a power-sharing deal ending months of turmoil
"We have spent hundreds of millions of dollars [on people] who want to leave under the slightest pressure. You need to have the will if you want to have a country." The president may be taking a defiant position, but many Afghans at home and abroad feel resentment towards Mr Ghani for not calling on his own children, who live in the United States, to return.
In figures: Afghanistan departures
For three decades, Afghanistan was main source of refugees globally until 2014 when it was overtaken by Syria
More than one million people from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria crossed into Greece in 2015
Afghan migrants made up an estimated 20% of all arrivals in Europe by boat in 2015
154,000 Afghan asylum seekers arrived in Germany alone in 2015
While he has inherited some of the problems he faces today, his approval rating continues to plummet with many Afghans feeling he has failed to manage expectations. And these latest statements are likely to cause a further drop.
It is not yet two years since he came to power and already in Kabul there is a sense of nostalgia for the past, with many referring to the era of his predecessor Hamid Karzai as the "good days".
The president is very much aware of the situation on the ground and believes Afghans should confront it. Last year, more than 11,000 civilians were killed or wounded in the country. One in four were children. That's the highest number recorded since the US-led invasion 14 years ago.
Image copyrightAPImage captionStabilising the security situation is proving difficult
The United Nations says if Afghanistan's national unity government survives 2016, it will consider it a success. The bar is pretty low. And the Afghan people feel increasingly frustrated. A recent BBG-Gallup survey indicated that nearly 69% of people say their lives have got worse in the past year. Some 81% of people are dissatisfied with the government and 76% with Ashraf Ghani.
It appears that no matter what assurances the president gives people about how he intends to boost the economy and create jobs, the fact remains that this is a nation that continues to be heavily dependent on the international community for both security and economic assistance.
The deteriorating conditions also highlight the international community's failure to deal with the insecurity in Afghanistan. Nato and its partner nations have roughly 12,000 troops stationed there, yet the Taliban's reach is wider than at any time since 2001.
'Talking fiction'
When President Ghani was sworn in, he immediately oversaw the signing of a controversial pact with the US known as the bilateral security agreement. It's controversial because Hamid Karzai had incensed the Obama Administration by refusing to agree to the deal until his demands had been met, souring relations between Washington and Kabul.
This was something Ghani had vowed to mend. With Nato troops remaining in the country, it was supposed to protect Afghan interests and make Afghanistan safer. The security situation now is the worst it's been since 2001.
The insurgents have been invited to the negotiating table many times but say they won't be coming while foreign troops remain in the country. And why would the Taliban bother striking a peace deal with the government when they have made such significant gains in the battlefield?
When I asked the Afghan president about growing concerns that the southern province of Helmand could collapse to the Taliban, he dismissed them. "Every place they've made gains, we've reversed them. Concerns are one thing, I'm talking fact, you're talking fiction."
Image copyrightAPImage captionMost people in Afghanistan think life has got worse in the past year, polls suggest
But according to the independent Afghan Analysts Network, the Taliban are now better organised, better equipped and have developed sanctuaries in Afghanistan. In a report released this month, the AAN has given a detailed breakdown of the districts the Taliban are currently in control of in Helmand province.
There is no doubt that the Afghan president is in a tough position. He and his fragile unity government face the difficult balancing act of stabilising the security situation and providing assurances to the Afghan people that their future prospects are not entirely doomed.
But with 60% of the population under the age of 20, it is clearly proving hard for the Afghan leader to convince them that there is hope for a better future if they remain in the country.
The central government also fears that it is mostly the educated middle class who are leaving. This means it will be an even greater struggle to rebuild Afghanistan after years of conflict.
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President Ghani calls for Afghans to remain in country
By Yalda HakimBBC News
31 March 2016
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Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has taken a tough and somewhat unexpectedly blunt stance on the tens of thousands of his citizens who are fleeing the country to make the dangerous journey to Europe.
"I have no sympathy," the Afghan leader told me in his palace in Kabul. He is calling on his countrymen to remain in the war-ravaged nation and join in the effort to rebuild it.
But do his words carry the weight they should, in a country that is increasingly feeling frustrated with the political elite, and a sense of hopelessness about their future?
Convincing people to stay feels like an impossible task for what is perhaps one of the toughest jobs in the world, being Afghanistan's president. Ashraf Ghani was sworn in in September 2014 after controversial elections.
Image copyrightEPAImage captionAfghans are continuing to make their way to EuropeThis led to the formation of a national unity government with his main rival, Abdullah Abdullah, appointed as chief executive officer. Since then, Mr Ghani has had to deal with a shrinking economy, high unemployment, a perilous security situation thanks to a resurgent Taliban and an ineffective government, further weakened by his troubled partnership with Dr Abdullah.
'Defiant'
It is no wonder, then, that Afghans make up the second largest group, after Syrians, to flee to Europe. In the past year alone, 180,000 nationals have fled instability and economic hardship at home.
But who should take responsibility for the tens of thousands of Afghans who have turned up on European shores? In a wide-ranging interview, Ashraf Ghani said that people shouldn't take the risky journey in the first place.
Image copyrightAPImage captionIn 2014, Abdullah Abdullah and Ashraf Ghani signed a power-sharing deal ending months of turmoil"We have spent hundreds of millions of dollars [on people] who want to leave under the slightest pressure. You need to have the will if you want to have a country." The president may be taking a defiant position, but many Afghans at home and abroad feel resentment towards Mr Ghani for not calling on his own children, who live in the United States, to return.
In figures: Afghanistan departures
For three decades, Afghanistan was main source of refugees globally until 2014 when it was overtaken by Syria
More than one million people from Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria crossed into Greece in 2015
Afghan migrants made up an estimated 20% of all arrivals in Europe by boat in 2015
154,000 Afghan asylum seekers arrived in Germany alone in 2015
While he has inherited some of the problems he faces today, his approval rating continues to plummet with many Afghans feeling he has failed to manage expectations. And these latest statements are likely to cause a further drop.
It is not yet two years since he came to power and already in Kabul there is a sense of nostalgia for the past, with many referring to the era of his predecessor Hamid Karzai as the "good days".
The president is very much aware of the situation on the ground and believes Afghans should confront it. Last year, more than 11,000 civilians were killed or wounded in the country. One in four were children. That's the highest number recorded since the US-led invasion 14 years ago.
Image copyrightAPImage captionStabilising the security situation is proving difficultThe United Nations says if Afghanistan's national unity government survives 2016, it will consider it a success. The bar is pretty low. And the Afghan people feel increasingly frustrated. A recent BBG-Gallup survey indicated that nearly 69% of people say their lives have got worse in the past year. Some 81% of people are dissatisfied with the government and 76% with Ashraf Ghani.
It appears that no matter what assurances the president gives people about how he intends to boost the economy and create jobs, the fact remains that this is a nation that continues to be heavily dependent on the international community for both security and economic assistance.
The deteriorating conditions also highlight the international community's failure to deal with the insecurity in Afghanistan. Nato and its partner nations have roughly 12,000 troops stationed there, yet the Taliban's reach is wider than at any time since 2001.
'Talking fiction'
When President Ghani was sworn in, he immediately oversaw the signing of a controversial pact with the US known as the bilateral security agreement. It's controversial because Hamid Karzai had incensed the Obama Administration by refusing to agree to the deal until his demands had been met, souring relations between Washington and Kabul.
This was something Ghani had vowed to mend. With Nato troops remaining in the country, it was supposed to protect Afghan interests and make Afghanistan safer. The security situation now is the worst it's been since 2001.
The insurgents have been invited to the negotiating table many times but say they won't be coming while foreign troops remain in the country. And why would the Taliban bother striking a peace deal with the government when they have made such significant gains in the battlefield?
When I asked the Afghan president about growing concerns that the southern province of Helmand could collapse to the Taliban, he dismissed them. "Every place they've made gains, we've reversed them. Concerns are one thing, I'm talking fact, you're talking fiction."
Image copyrightAPImage captionMost people in Afghanistan think life has got worse in the past year, polls suggestBut according to the independent Afghan Analysts Network, the Taliban are now better organised, better equipped and have developed sanctuaries in Afghanistan. In a report released this month, the AAN has given a detailed breakdown of the districts the Taliban are currently in control of in Helmand province.
There is no doubt that the Afghan president is in a tough position. He and his fragile unity government face the difficult balancing act of stabilising the security situation and providing assurances to the Afghan people that their future prospects are not entirely doomed.
But with 60% of the population under the age of 20, it is clearly proving hard for the Afghan leader to convince them that there is hope for a better future if they remain in the country.
The central government also fears that it is mostly the educated middle class who are leaving. This means it will be an even greater struggle to rebuild Afghanistan after years of conflict.
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Image copyrightGetty ImagesImage captionAmnesty said the Qatar government was "apathetic" about preventing abusesRights group Amnesty International has accused Qatar of using forced labour at a flagship World Cup 2022 stadium.
Amnesty says workers at Khalifa International Stadium are forced to live in squalid accommodation, pay huge recruitment fees and have had wages withheld and passports confiscated.
It also accuses Fifa of "failing almost completely" to stop the tournament being "built on human rights abuses".
Qatar said it was "concerned" by the allegations and would investigate.
The government said the welfare of migrant workers was a "top priority" and insisted it was committed to systematic reform of Qatar's labour laws.
Fifa, the governing body of world football, said measures had been taken that had already improved the situation for migrant workers.
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Last year the country pledged to makes changes to its "kafala" sponsorship system, under which migrant workers cannot change jobs or leave the country without their employer's permission.
But Amnesty warned the proposed reforms would make little difference and said some of the workers were enduring a "living nightmare".
"All workers want are their rights: to be paid on time, leave the country if need be and be treated with dignity and respect," said general secretary Salil Shetty.
Image copyrightAPImage captionAbuses of World Cup workers is a "stain on the conscience of world football", Amnesty saidAmnesty interviewed 231 mostly South Asian migrants - 132 working at the stadium and 99 on green spaces in the surrounding Aspire sports complex.
It said staff of one labour supply company used the threat of penalties to exact work from some migrants such as withholding pay, handing workers over to the police or stopping them from leaving Qatar.
This amounted to forced labour under international law, Amnesty said.
The Qatari government said its Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs would investigate the contractors named in the report.
But Amnesty said every migrant it had interviewed had reported abuses of one kind or another, including being:
required to pay fees of up to $4,300 to recruiters in their home country to get a job in Qatar
deceived over the type of work and the pay on offer, which was sometimes half as much as they were promised
threatened for complaining about their conditions
One metal worker from India who worked on the Khalifa stadium refurbishment told Amnesty he was threatened by his employer when he complained about not being paid for several months.
Image copyrightAFPImage captionQatar's government says it is committed to labour reform"He just shouted abuse at me and said that if I complained again I'd never leave the country," the worker said.
"Ever since I have been careful not to complain about my salary or anything else. Of course, if I could I would change jobs or leave Qatar."
Another metal worker from Nepal said his life was "like a prison".
Some of the Nepali workers told Amnesty they were not allowed to visit their families after the earthquake last April that killed thousands and left millions displaced.
Hassan al-Thawadi, Secretary General for Qatar's Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, which is responsible for delivering stadiums and infrastructure for the games, told the BBC that addressing the issue of workers' welfare was a "long journey".
"We cannot resolve everything overnight," he said.
"Progress has been made on the ground in relation to a number of these issues. In addition, I think the report indicates the commitment the Supreme Committee has made in relation to workers' welfare and our standards, as well as the openness and transparency with which we have dealt with these matters."
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'Fifa indifference'
Mr Shetty also had harsh words for Fifa, accusing it of "indifference" to the abuse of migrant workers, which he said was a "stain on the conscience of world football".
The Khalifa Stadium is part of the Aspire Zone sports complex, where facilities have already been used by some of the world's biggest football clubs, including Bayern Munich, Everton and Paris Saint-Germain, which trained there in the winter.
Amnesty has called on big World Cup sponsors such as Adidas, Coca Cola and McDonald's to put pressure on Fifa to tackle the issue.
"It is time for football's leaders to speak out or be tainted by association," Mr Shetty said.
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Out of media player. Press enter to return or tab to continue.Media captionDan Roan reported in February 2015 on alleged labour violations in Qatar
Could Qatar lose its World Cup?
It wants Fifa to get Qatar to publish a comprehensive reform plan before construction on World Cup projects peaks in 2017.
It also wants Fifa to carry out its own inspections of labour conditions in the Gulf state.
The numbers working on World Cup sites are set to rise tenfold to around 36,000 in the next two years, Amnesty said.
Fifa released a statement on Thursday saying that since 2011 it had been meeting key groups, including Amnesty International, to discuss "consistent and sustained implementation of fair working conditions" on world cup sites.
Fifa said: "This is an ongoing process. Challenges remain, but Fifa is confident that the structures and processes set-up so far by the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy, which is the entity responsible for the delivery of Fifa World Cup infrastructure, provide a good basis to monitor labour rights of migrant workers."
Fifa's head of sustainability, Federico Addiechi, said measures taken by the committee "have already improved the situation for migrant workers".
Correction 31 March 2016: An earlier version of this story showed a picture of an Aecom employee at a Qatar construction site without making it clear the company does not work, nor has any employees, at Khalifa International Stadium.
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Harrowing Tales Of Nazi Persecution Uncovered
The British survivors of Nazi concentration camps share tales of "jungle law" and "cannibalism" in harrowing new records.
07:39, UK,Thursday 31 March 2016
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First-hand accounts of the horrors suffered by British victims of Nazi persecution have been made available to the public for the first time.
Harrowing tales of "rampant" cannibalism and "jungle law" in Nazi concentration camps have been uncovered in hundreds of records released by the National Archives.
Some 900 applications for compensation, filed by the victims and their families in the 1960s, have been released so far, with 3,000 more to come by spring 2017.
The documents include an application from Harold Le Druillenec, the only British survivor found at the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp who went on to give evidence at the Belsen Trials.
He wrote: "All my time here was spent in heaving dead bodies into the mass graves kindly dug for us by 'outside workers' for we no longer had the strength for that type of work which, fortunately, must have been observed by the camp authorities.
Play video "Camp Of Death: Bergen-Belsen"Video: Camp Of Death: Bergen-Belsen"Jungle law reigned among the prisoners; at night you killed or were killed; by day cannibalism was rampant.
"The bulk of Auschwitz had been transferred to Belsen when I arrived and it was here that I heard the expression: 'There is only one way out of here - through the chimney!' (crematorium)."
Le Druillenec was arrested in the Channel Islands - the only part of the UK occupied during the Second World War - the day before D-Day in 1944 for helping his sister harbour an escaped Russian prisoner of war, having a radio and for "non-cooperation" with German forces.
During his 10 months in the camp he lost more than half his body weight and was "hours" from death when the camp was liberated in April 1945.
He spent almost a year recovering from the dysentery, scabies, malnutrition and septicaemia he suffered.
He was awarded £1,835 - around £30,000 today - as a result of his application.
In 1964 the Federal Republic of Germany agreed to pay the British Government £1m - about £17m today - to give to British citizens who had suffered as a result of Nazi persecution.
In total, the Foreign Office paid 1,015 victims compensation, following more than 4,000 applications.
Among the recipients were:
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He was imprisoned in various camps including Buchenwald and Dachau.
He claimed for concussion, kidney damage, bronchitis, thyroid trouble and renal colic.
The concussion was due to a heavy blow he received in Buchenwald which left him with permanent headaches.
The kidney damage was due to beatings during interrogations in Gestapo prison.
He recounted "continuous beating and killing" by the Germans and wrote: "I realised then that I was condemned to die".
He received just over £2,000 in compensation.
:: Molly Burgess Dessy
She was arrested in 1943 for harbouring two American airmen in a flat in Brussels and taken to St Gilles prison where she was subjected to six months solitary confinement.
Play video "Queen Pays Tribute To Nazi Victims"Video: Queen Pays Tribute To Nazi VictimsOn 9 February, 1945, she was sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp where she was told her name no longer existed and she was "as good as dead".
She was taken to be gassed on several occasions, sometimes waiting for 12 to 14 hours, but managed to escape death.
She left the concentration camp and was sent to an isolation hospital in Sweden with typhus.
She received £1,468 in compensation.
:: Frank Herbert Tuck
He was held in concentration camps for just over three years.
In his application he said he had suffered a back injury after being hit across the spine by a German guard. He also claimed for starvation, privation and excessive forced labour.
The Foreign Office eventually agreed to pay him the maximum amount of £4,000 compensation.
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India Flyover Collapse: 14 Dead And 150 Trapped
Rescuers are frantically trying to save many people still trapped beneath the steel and concrete wreckage.
14:54, UK,Thursday 31 March 2016
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At least 14 people have been killed and 150 are feared trapped after a partially built flyover collapsed in the Indian city of Kolkata, according to police.
Witnesses say rescuers are using their bare hands to try to save those caught under the rubble.
Television footage shows people passing water bottles through to those who are crying out for help from beneath the debris.
One witness has told the New Delhi Television news channel (NDTV): "We heard a loud rumble and then saw a lot of dust in the sky."
Another added: "The area was very, very crowded. Motorised rickshaws, taxis ... there was a lot of traffic."
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Large concrete slabs from the construction site fell onto traffic below, reports said.
Heavy duty cranes have apparently been brought in to move the wreckage, but attempts have so far been unsuccessful.
Senior police officer Akhilesh Chaturvedi said 15 critically injured people had been rescued.
"Most were bleeding profusely. The problem is that nobody is able to drive an ambulance to the spot," he added.
Some witnesses have been critical of the initial response, with one saying there appears to be very little co-ordination on the ground.
Army officers and the National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) have been called in to help.
An NDRF official said: "Our team is on their way to the site with all required equipment, we are also pressing into service canines which will help find trapped people.
"We will start the operations as soon as possible."
Construction of the 2km (1.2 mile) flyover was supposed to be completed three years ago, but it has been delayed several times.
The region's chief minister, Mamata Banerjee, who is seeking re-election next month, is already facing tough questions over who is responsible for the tragedy.
A newspaper reported last year that she wanted the project finished by February, but project engineers expressed concern over whether this would be possible.
Building collapses are common in India, partly because of the poor enforcement of regulations and the use substandard materials.
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Seven Injured As Tornado Hits Oklahoma
Video footage captured the moment the twister tore through a residential area of Tulsa, damaging homes and businesses.
13:10, UK,Thursday 31 March 2016
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At least seven people were injured after a tornado struck northeastern Oklahoma, tearing off roofs and causing structural damage to homes.
National Weather Service (NWS) meteorologist Amy Jankowski said a tornado touched down and lifted up repeatedly on Wednesday night as it swept through the Tulsa and Owasso areas.
Around one square mile of a residential area was damaged by the twister, according to Tulsa Fire Department spokesman Stan May.
One home was destroyed and houses and businesses sustained damage.
Debris could be seen being thrown into the air by the tornado
Mr May said there were no reports of anyone missing. He said: "We've got some elderly people in the area. We want to make sure people have the medicines they need."
Emergency Medical Services Authority spokeswoman Kelli Bruer said ambulances transported seven injured, one in a critical condition.
Around 5,000 homes lost power after the storm, with the Public Service Company of Oklahoma working overnight to restore electricity.
Nearly nine million people in parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas were in areas of tornado risk, according to the Storm Prediction Center.
In Louisiana, a flash-flood watch was issued for northern parts of the state until Thursday night.
A wave of severe thunderstorms could see up to six inches of rain in some parts of the state, raising fears of renewed flooding.
Cynthia Palmer, a forecaster for the NWS in Shreveport, Louisiana, said: "We will see the heaviest rain in the Monroe area of northeast Louisiana starting late this afternoon and evening and another wave on Thursday.
"This is the area that could see up to six inches."
In Mississippi, forecasters said thunderstorms could see up to four inches of rain. A flash-flood watch has also been issued in the north of the state.
More storms are forecast to develop in Alabama and Georgia on Thursday, with possible tornadoes, hail and heavy rain.
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Bélgica, um país disfuncional
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30/03/2016 - 20:16
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Atentados em Bruxelas
Quando, 12 horas depois do atentado terrorista em Bruxelas, o primeiro-ministro belga falou pela primeira vez aos jornalistas, não sabia quantas pessoas tinham morrido. À pergunta, mais do que previsível, Charles Michel respondeu apenas com um vago “muitos mortos, muitos feridos”.
Esta flagrante falta de controlo sobre a informação é só a ponta do icebergue de uma montanha gigante que esconde um sistema de segurança profundamente disfuncional.
As falhas do sistema belga estão a emergir ruidosamente. Quando sistematizadas, formam uma lista extensa. Quando comparadas com os vizinhos europeus, revelam um país semiparalisado.
E deveria ser exactamente o oposto. Foi da Bélgica que saiu o maior número de radicais que se juntaram às fileiras dos jihadistas islâmicos na Síria – quase 500 jovens. E nada disto é novo. Bruxelas e o bairro de Molenbeek estão no mapa do terrorismo há anos. O que fez a Bélgica com estes dados?
Continua sem uma linha telefónica dedicada à comunidade muçulmana, ao contrário do que fez a Holanda e a Alemanha; mantém por preencher 185 vagas nos quadros da polícia de Molenbeek; já não tem 19 forças policiais autónomas em Bruxelas, uma para cada um dos 19 bairros, mas continua a ter seis (para uma população de 1,4 milhões); os serviços secretos são um terço do dos holandeses; a polícia comunitária funciona em part-time; a prevenção não é levada a sério.
O debate sobre a eficácia da prevenção não fornece respostas taxativas. É muito difícil provar que a prevenção resulta – nunca saberemos o que teriam feito jovens em risco de se radicalizarem se não tivesse existido o trabalho de prevenção. Mas a prevenção não pode ser posta de lado. A ausência belga das grandes conferências internacionais sobre o tema é há muito notada. O mesmo em relação aos programas de desradicalização. A Noruega – que “deu” aos terroristas do autodenominado Estado Islâmico 81 radicais – investe activamente nestas duas frentes.
O problema belga é, no entanto, mais complexo. Especialistas sublinham há anos a ausência de coordenação que há na Bélgica quer ao nível das estruturas do contra-terrorismo clássico (vigilância, recolha de intelligence, policiamento, raides, etc.), quer de prevenção e desradicalização. No fundo, a estratégia para combater o terrorismo de hoje e o terrorismo de amanhã.
E por isso ninguém estranhou a notícia de que o aviso do FBI sobre dois dos terroristas de Bruxelas se perdeu. Os belgas dizem que não o receberam; o FBI e a Holanda dizem que o passaram. Isto ocorreu oito dias antes dos atentados. Mas já no Verão os serviços secretos turcos tinham feito aviso idêntico, quando deportaram um dos irmãos para a Holanda. Porque é que só o FBI ouviu os turcos?
A complexidade institucional, a extrema descentralização, os hiatos de comunicação entre os níveis federal e municipal, as duas línguas e as duas culturas e uma profunda falta de coordenação tornam a Bélgica perigosa para todos nós.
O Banif levou Luís Amado a rever o que pensa da União Europeia
CRISTINA FERREIRA e PAULO PENA
30/03/2016 - 23:14
O ex-ministro revelou aos deputados que propôs a Maria Luís Albuquerque sair para facilitar uma mudança na gestão do banco
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Luís Amado diz que Bruxelas "tinha um preconceito de raíz" sobre o Banif
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Banca
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Banif
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Maria Luís Albuquerque
Comissão de inquérito ao Banif
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Presidente da Comissão Europeia disponível para prestar esclarecimentos sobre o Banif
Ex-CEO do Banif critica ausência do Banco de Portugal quando houve corrida aos depósitos
O ex-ministro dos Negócios Estrangeiros, que negociou o Tratado de Lisboa e chefiava a diplomacia quando o Governo de José Sócrates cumpria PECs e assinava um memorando de assistência financeira, um político sempre comedido nas suas análises, passou a ver a União Europeia com outros olhos, depois de estar quatro anos à frente do conselho de administração, não executivo, do Banif.
Visto do banco, o poder da Europa chegou a assemelhar-se a um “rolo compressor”, garantiu Luís Amado aos deputados nesta quarta-feira. As instituições europeias, criticou, logo na sua intervenção inicial na comissão de inquérito, funcionam como um “centro de poder burocrático extremamente agressivo” e evidenciavam “um preconceito em relação ao Banif”.
Este problema, continuou Amado, foi uma das razões para que o seu projecto para o banco acabasse assim, a “morrer na praia”. Tudo porque havia, garantiu, um objectivo claro da Direcção-Geral da Concorrência, do Banco Central Europeu e da Comissão Europeia de entregar o banco português – que era forte sobretudo nos Açores e na Madeira – a um banco de grande dimensão na Península Ibérica. O “Santander ou o Banco Popular”, especificou. “Há em Frankfurt e em Bruxelas uma visão para a arquitectura do sistema [da União Bancária] que concentra uma parte em bancos de grande dimensão. A vontade de concentrar num banco como o Santander era evidente.”
Isto levou Amado, em resposta ao deputado comunista Paulo Sá, a uma longa meditação sobre a “metamorfose do projecto europeu”, onde deixou claro o seu desencanto. “É um problema com que nos confrontamos. Temos de reavaliar a relação com a UE. Temos de revisitar os fundamentos dessa relação.”
Em quase todas as suas respostas mais significativas, Amado disparou nessa direcção. Questionado por Marques Guedes, do PSD, o ex-ministro socialista deixou uma crítica a Maria Luís Albuquerque, a anterior ministra das Finanças que, nas entrelinhas, acusou de não ter feito o braço-de-ferro necessário com a “burocracia” de Bruxelas. “Tinha de haver tensão política. Havia um momento em que o problema teria de ser colocado à Comissão. Havia um choque entre o interesse europeu e as instâncias nacionais. A interacção entre o Governo e a Comissão é política. É um choque de poder que é exigido.” Tudo porque, garante Amado, o Banif era “uma questão do Estado”. “Não é um banco de privados, da família Espírito Santo, era um banco do Estado.”
A relação da administração do banco com o Governo e o Banco de Portugal foi boa, revelou Amado, até ao início de 2015. A partir daí passou a ser “disfuncional”. “A partir do início do ano entrámos em disfuncionalidade”, afirmou, em resposta a Mariana Mortágua, do Bloco de Esquerda (BE). Desde logo porque o Governo não informou o banco do prazo dado por Bruxelas para um novo plano. Nessa altura, Maria Luís Albuquerque estaria, segundo cartas divulgadas pela deputada do BE, a tratar da substituição da administração do banco. Amado confirmou. “Para facilitar a solução propus ao governador e ao Ministério das Finanças que Jorge Tomé passasse a presidente do conselho de administração não executivo e o seu número dois presidisse à comissão administrativa.” Ou seja, Amado cederia o seu lugar a Tomé. Mas o plano da ministra fracassou.
Mas a posição “chantagista” de Bruxelas continuou. E as tentativas de capitalizar o banco iam fracassando – o exemplo mais relevante, com que Amado foi confrontado foi o da Guiné Equatorial, com quem o ex-ministro admite ter encetado contactos no Governo.
O tempo foi-se esgotando. E veio aquilo a que Amado chama de “tempestade perfeita”. As eleições, em Outubro, deixaram um “vazio de poder” até 26 de Novembro, quando o actual Governo tomou posse. Nessa altura já a posição do Banco de Portugal tinha mudado, também, garante Amado, sem se alongar em interpretações. Depois veio a notícia da TVI sobre uma alegada liquidação do banco. A fuga de mil milhões em depósitos. E o fim, com a resolução do banco, que Amado garante que “não esperava”, e a venda ao Santander, em final de Dezembro.
Houve mais uma crítica que parece dirigida a António Costa. Em resposta ao deputado João Almeida, do CDS, Amado considerou que a “introdução do Banif na agenda da campanha eleitoral foi um erro gravíssimo para o país”.
O Pensamento de Antero de Quental...
O Pensamento de Antero de Quental (1842-1891), in O Citador
"Indiferença em Política
Um dos piores sintomas de desorganização social, que num povo livre se pode manifestar, é a indiferença da parte dos governados para o que diz respeito aos homens e às cousas do governo, porque, num povo livre, esses homens e essas cousas são os símbolos da actividade, das energias, da vida social, são os depositários da vontade e da soberania nacional.
Que um povo de escravos folgue indiferente ou durma o sono solto enquanto em cima se forjam as algemas servis, enquanto sobre o seu mesmo peito, como em bigorna insensível se bate a espada que lho há-de trespassar, é triste, mas compreende-se porque esse sono é o da abjecção e da ignomínia.
Mas quando é livre esse povo, quando a paz lhe é ainda convalescença para as feridas ganhadas em defesa dessa liberdade, quando começa a ter consciência de si e da sua soberania... que então, como tomado de vertigem, desvie os olhos do norte que tanto lhe custara a avistar e deixe correr indiferente a sabor do vento e da onda o navio que tanto risco lhe dera a lançar do porto; para esse povo é como de morte este sintoma, porque é o olvido da ideia que há pouco ainda lhe custara tanto suor tinto com tanto sangue, porque é renegar da bandeira da sua fé, porque é uma nação apóstata da religião das nações - a liberdade! "
Antero de Quental, in 'Prosas da Época de Coimbra'
Poema de Paulo Ilharco...
Poema de Paulo Ilharco, in Net
SILÊNCIO BY PAULO ILHARCO
De silêncio me grito e me dilato
Nas frases blateradas pelo Mundo
A ter de ser, serei, mas pouco exacto
Nas coisas que, ignorando, me aprofundo.
Fui rei enquanto fui vagabundo,
Sem ter de atraiçoar meu ar pacato.
Vivi a Eternidade num segundo,
Tendo sido a nudez meu próprio fato.
Das rosas não senti o seu perfume...
Das paixões, nem o gelo,nem o lume...
De mim, talvez a alma como emblema...
Por isso é que me grito de mudez
E a esse Ser Sublime que me fez
Eu entrego o Silêncio num poema!
15 de Fevereiro de 2002
quarta-feira, 30 de março de 2016
From BBC: science and environment
Science & Environment
Ancient fossil was 'nearly a spider'
By Jonathan WebbScience reporter, BBC News
30 March 2016
From the sectionScience & Environment
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Out of media player. Press enter to return or tab to continue.Media captionThe creature's mouthparts and limbs were very spider-like
Scientists say a 305 million-year-old fossil is the closest relative to "true spiders" ever discovered - but is not itself a spider.
Easily pre-dating the dinosaurs, the 1.5cm creature lived alongside the oldest known ancestors of modern spiders but its lineage is now extinct.
The specimen was dug up decades ago in France but never identified, because its front half was encased in rock.
Now, researchers have made a detailed reconstruction using CT scans.
Their findings are reported in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
"This fossil is the most closely related thing we have to a spider that isn't a spider," said first author Russell Garwood from the University of Manchester.
Legs and jaws
Now christened Idmonarachne brasieri, the arachnid was among "a box full of fossils" that Dr Garwood's co-author Paul Selden, from the University of Kansas in the US, had borrowed from the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris in the 1980s.
It originally came from a rich region of fossil-bearing deposits near Montceau les-Mines, in eastern France.
Image copyrightGarwood et al 2016/MNHN, ParisImage captionThe front half of the fossil, buried in rock, could only be revealed by CT scans
"By CT scanning it, you can actually extract the full front half of the animal from the rock, to try and better understand its anatomy," Dr Garwood told BBC News.
First of all, as well as the animal's eight spidery limbs, he and his colleagues spotted some imposing jaws. These confirmed that it was a new species and not one of the more distant cousins of spiders known from the same period.
It also lacked the tail-like appendage of the older, similarly long-extinct arachnid family that included Attercopus, living some 80 million years earlier. Those earlier critters could produce silk, probably to line their burrows or make a trail to follow home, but did not have the spinnerets that allow spiders to weave webs.
As such, Dr Garwood explained, the new arrival I. brasieri fills a gap - having spider-like legs and jaws but still lacking spinnerets.
"Our creature probably split off the spider line after [Attercopus], but before true spiders appeared," he said.
Image copyrightGarwood et al 2016Image captionThe creature dates to the late Carboniferous period and belongs to a now-extinct lineage
"The earliest known spider is actually from the same fossil deposit - and it definitely has spinnerets. So what we're actually looking at is an extinct lineage that split off the spider line some time before 305 million years ago, and those two have evolved in parallel."
To confirm that the extinct critter definitely lacked spinnerets, the team switched from a regular laboratory CT scanner to using the high-powered X-rays of theDiamond synchrotron in Oxfordshire.
"We had to consider the fact they could have fallen out, and just left a hole in the abdomen," Dr Garwood said. "You need a quite high-resolution scan to be able to spot that distortion."
With all the evidence in place, the team was able to name their discovery. They chose to commemorate a colleague: Martin Brasier, an Oxford palaeobiologist who died recently in a car accident.
"He was a very supportive academic," said Dr Garwood.
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Ancient fossil was 'nearly a spider'
By Jonathan WebbScience reporter, BBC News
30 March 2016
From the sectionScience & Environment
Jump media player
Media player help
Out of media player. Press enter to return or tab to continue.Media captionThe creature's mouthparts and limbs were very spider-like
Scientists say a 305 million-year-old fossil is the closest relative to "true spiders" ever discovered - but is not itself a spider.
Easily pre-dating the dinosaurs, the 1.5cm creature lived alongside the oldest known ancestors of modern spiders but its lineage is now extinct.
The specimen was dug up decades ago in France but never identified, because its front half was encased in rock.
Now, researchers have made a detailed reconstruction using CT scans.
Their findings are reported in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B.
"This fossil is the most closely related thing we have to a spider that isn't a spider," said first author Russell Garwood from the University of Manchester.
Legs and jaws
Now christened Idmonarachne brasieri, the arachnid was among "a box full of fossils" that Dr Garwood's co-author Paul Selden, from the University of Kansas in the US, had borrowed from the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle in Paris in the 1980s.
It originally came from a rich region of fossil-bearing deposits near Montceau les-Mines, in eastern France.
Image copyrightGarwood et al 2016/MNHN, ParisImage captionThe front half of the fossil, buried in rock, could only be revealed by CT scans"By CT scanning it, you can actually extract the full front half of the animal from the rock, to try and better understand its anatomy," Dr Garwood told BBC News.
First of all, as well as the animal's eight spidery limbs, he and his colleagues spotted some imposing jaws. These confirmed that it was a new species and not one of the more distant cousins of spiders known from the same period.
It also lacked the tail-like appendage of the older, similarly long-extinct arachnid family that included Attercopus, living some 80 million years earlier. Those earlier critters could produce silk, probably to line their burrows or make a trail to follow home, but did not have the spinnerets that allow spiders to weave webs.
As such, Dr Garwood explained, the new arrival I. brasieri fills a gap - having spider-like legs and jaws but still lacking spinnerets.
"Our creature probably split off the spider line after [Attercopus], but before true spiders appeared," he said.
Image copyrightGarwood et al 2016Image captionThe creature dates to the late Carboniferous period and belongs to a now-extinct lineage"The earliest known spider is actually from the same fossil deposit - and it definitely has spinnerets. So what we're actually looking at is an extinct lineage that split off the spider line some time before 305 million years ago, and those two have evolved in parallel."
To confirm that the extinct critter definitely lacked spinnerets, the team switched from a regular laboratory CT scanner to using the high-powered X-rays of theDiamond synchrotron in Oxfordshire.
"We had to consider the fact they could have fallen out, and just left a hole in the abdomen," Dr Garwood said. "You need a quite high-resolution scan to be able to spot that distortion."
With all the evidence in place, the team was able to name their discovery. They chose to commemorate a colleague: Martin Brasier, an Oxford palaeobiologist who died recently in a car accident.
"He was a very supportive academic," said Dr Garwood.
Follow Jonathan on Twitter
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